Scrub Jay News Today

Volusia County things to do include the Junior League of Daytona Beach's second annual Touch-A-Truck event May 19 in Port Orange and a concert by The Ebb Tides Barbershop Quartet May 19 at the Deltona Regional Library.

"The Backyard Bird Chronicles" follows the life-or-death struggles of the novelist’s feathered friends.

It's a pleasure to sit with Amy Tan as she sketches and watches her way to an obsession about the birds in her Marin County backyard.

“I imagined tiny avian helicopters dining on my palm.”

Oh, how I would love to sneak up on a thrush! Get close enough to admire every feather...Sadly for me, birds are alert. Sneaking and hiding just doesn’t work on

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine: The Long Mural by James Van Pelt

 

The threatened Florida Scrub-Jay would replace the Northern Mockingbird as Florida’s official state bird if a new bill filed in the legislature becomes law. Sen. Tina Polsky, a Democrat from Boca Raton, filed SB 162 earlier this month in her attempt to elevate the Florida Scrub-Jay. It would remove the Mockingbird, which has been the Sunshine State’s official bird since 1927. Polsky’s bill ...

The president of the board of directors told the Herald-Tribune they received a $25,000 donation from an anonymous group in Sarasota, plus $10,000 from a repeat donor.